Cover photo: Palestinians load a truck with humanitarian aid in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2023. IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / Portal
- Israel continued its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after rejecting the idea of a “humanitarian pause” called for by the United States. The IDF, which has been relentlessly shelling the Palestinian territory since October 8, has also been waging ground battles against the Islamist movement for more than a week.
- The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, met the Prime Minister of Qatar on Saturdaya mediating country in the conflict. He will also meet with his Jordanian, Egyptian, Saudi and Emirati counterparts, as well as the King of Jordanwhose country recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest against the offensive in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Blinken will continue his tour in Türkiye on Sunday. Its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he would break off all contacts with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Ankara recalls its ambassador to Israel.
- Hamas, which is in power in the Gaza Strip, claimed on Saturday that an Israeli bombing had killed fifteen people at a UN school. where displaced people sought refuge in the Jabaliya refugee camp (in the north of the Gaza Strip). The last days, several deadly bombings against this camp, the largest in the area, against schools and a strike on Friday against an ambulance triggered several unsuccessful calls to spare civilians.
- Israeli soldiers have been surrounding Gaza City since Thursday in an attempt to destroy Hamas’ “center.” The IDF also said on Saturday that its soldiers had suffered several attacks in the north of the enclave, killing “dozens of terrorists” from the Islamist movement. Israeli forces also said they had carried out a “targeted raid” against “a terrorist cell emerging from a tunnel” in southern Gaza. According to the same source 341 soldiers have been killed since the war began. Mr Netanyahu acknowledged that the ground operation had been “difficult”.
- Tensions are also very high on the Israeli-Lebanese border, where the Shiite movement Hezbollah, allied with Hamas and supported by Iran, is very present. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had launched airstrikes on Hezbollah targets following attacks by the Lebanese movement, marking a new escalation of the conflict in the region.
- The Health Ministry of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip reported 9,488 deaths in the enclave on Saturday.including 3,900 children since the start of the war. According to authorities, at least 1,400 people were killed in Israelthe majority of civilians massacred on the day of the Islamist movement’s attack, October 7th. According to the Israeli army, Hamas is also holding 241 hostages.
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